Universe Levels of Reality

106:0.1It is not enough that the as­cend­ing mor­tal should know some­thing of the re­la­tions of De­ity to the gen­e­sis and man­i­fes­ta­tions of cos­mic re­al­ity; he should also com­pre­hend some­thing of the re­la­tion­ships ex­ist­ing be­tween him­self and the nu­mer­ous lev­els of ex­is­ten­tial and ex­pe­ri­en­tial re­al­i­ties, of po­ten­tial and ac­tual re­al­i­ties. Man’s ter­res­trial ori­en­ta­tion, his cos­mic in­sight, and his spir­i­tual di­rec­tion­iza­tion are all en­hanced by a bet­ter com­pre­hen­sion of uni­verse re­al­i­ties and their tech­niques of in­teras­so­ci­a­tion, in­te­gra­tion, and uni­fi­ca­tion.

106:0.2The pres­ent grand uni­verse and the emerg­ing mas­ter uni­verse are made up of many forms and phases of re­al­ity which, in turn, are ex­is­tent on sev­eral lev­els of func­tional ac­tiv­ity. These man­i­fold ex­is­tents and la­tents have been pre­vi­ously sug­gested in these pa­pers, and they are now grouped for con­cep­tual con­ve­nience in the fol­low­ing cat­e­gories:

106:0.31. In­com­plete finites. This is the pres­ent sta­tus of the as­cend­ing crea­tures of the grand uni­verse, the pres­ent sta­tus of Uran­tia mor­tals. This level em­braces crea­ture ex­is­tence from the plan­e­tary hu­man up to, but not in­clud­ing, des­tiny at­tain­ers. It per­tains to uni­verses from early phys­i­cal be­gin­nings up to, but not in­clud­ing, set­tle­ment in light and life. This level con­sti­tutes the pres­ent pe­riph­ery of cre­ative ac­tiv­ity in time and space. It ap­pears to be mov­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise, for the clos­ing of the pres­ent uni­verse age, which will wit­ness the grand uni­verse at­tain­ment of light and life, will also and surely wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of some new or­der of de­vel­op­men­tal growth in the first outer space level.

106:0.42. Max­i­mum finites. This is the pres­ent sta­tus of all ex­pe­ri­en­tial crea­tures who have at­tained des­tiny—des­tiny as re­vealed within the scope of the pres­ent uni­verse age. Even uni­verses can at­tain to the max­i­mum of sta­tus, both spir­i­tu­ally and phys­i­cally. But the term “max­i­mum” is it­self a rel­a­tive term—max­i­mum in re­la­tion to what? And that which is max­i­mum, seem­ingly fi­nal, in the pres­ent uni­verse age may be no more than a real be­gin­ning in terms of the ages to come. Some phases of Ha­vona ap­pear to be on the max­i­mum or­der.

106:0.53. Tran­scen­den­tals. This super­fi­nite level (an­te­ced­ently) fol­lows fi­nite pro­gres­sion. It im­plies the pre­f­i­nite gen­e­sis of fi­nite be­gin­nings and the postfi­nite sig­nif­i­cance of all ap­par­ent fi­nite end­ings or des­tinies. Much of Par­a­dise-Ha­vona ap­pears to be on the tran­scen­den­tal or­der.

106:0.64. Ul­ti­mates. This level en­com­passes that which is of mas­ter uni­verse sig­nif­i­cance and im­pinges on the des­tiny level of the com­pleted mas­ter uni­verse. Par­a­dise-Ha­vona (es­pe­cially the cir­cuit of the Fa­ther’s worlds) is in many re­spects of ul­ti­mate sig­nif­i­cance.

106:0.75. Coab­so­lutes. This level im­plies the pro­jec­tion of ex­pe­ri­en­tials upon a super­mas­ter uni­verse field of cre­ative ex­pres­sion.

106:0.86. Ab­so­lutes. This level con­notes the eter­nity pres­ence of the seven ex­is­ten­tial Ab­so­lutes. It may also in­volve some de­gree of as­so­cia­tive ex­pe­ri­en­tial at­tain­ment, but if so, we do not un­der­stand how, per­haps through the con­tact po­ten­tial of per­son­al­ity.

106:0.97. In­fin­ity. This level is pre-ex­is­ten­tial and pos­t­ex­pe­ri­en­tial. Un­qual­i­fied unity of in­fin­ity is a hy­po­thet­i­cal re­al­ity be­fore all be­gin­nings and af­ter all des­tinies.

106:0.10These lev­els of re­al­ity are con­ve­nient com­pro­mise sym­bol­iza­tions of the pres­ent uni­verse age and for the mor­tal per­spec­tive. There are a num­ber of other ways of look­ing at re­al­ity from other-than-mor­tal per­spec­tive and from the stand­point of other uni­verse ages. Thus it should be rec­og­nized that the con­cepts here­with pre­sented are en­tirely rel­a­tive, rel­a­tive in the sense of be­ing con­di­tioned and lim­ited by:

106:0.111. The lim­i­ta­tions of mor­tal lan­guage.

106:0.122. The lim­i­ta­tions of the mor­tal mind.

106:0.133. The lim­ited de­vel­op­ment of the seven super­uni­verses.

106:0.144. Your ig­no­rance of the six prime pur­poses of super­uni­verse de­vel­op­ment which do not per­tain to the mor­tal as­cent to Par­a­dise.

106:0.155. Your in­abil­ity to grasp even a par­tial eter­nity view­point.

106:0.166. The im­pos­si­bil­ity of de­pict­ing cos­mic evo­lu­tion and des­tiny in re­la­tion to all uni­verse ages, not just in re­gard to the pres­ent age of the evo­lu­tion­ary un­fold­ing of the seven super­uni­verses.

106:0.177. The in­abil­ity of any crea­ture to grasp what is re­ally meant by pre-ex­is­ten­tials or by pos­t­ex­pe­ri­en­tials—that which lies be­fore be­gin­nings and af­ter des­tinies.

106:0.18Re­al­ity growth is con­di­tioned by the cir­cum­stances of the suc­ces­sive uni­verse ages. The cen­tral uni­verse un­der­went no evo­lu­tion­ary change in the Ha­vona age, but in the pres­ent epochs of the super­uni­verse age it is un­der­go­ing cer­tain pro­gres­sive changes in­duced by co-or­di­na­tion with the evo­lu­tion­ary super­uni­verses. The seven super­uni­verses, now evolv­ing, will some­time at­tain the set­tled sta­tus of light and life, will at­tain the growth limit for the pres­ent uni­verse age. But be­yond doubt, the next age, the age of the first outer space level, will re­lease the super­uni­verses from the des­tiny lim­i­ta­tions of the pres­ent age. Re­ple­tion is con­tin­u­ally be­ing super­im­posed upon com­ple­tion.

106:0.19These are some of the lim­i­ta­tions which we en­counter in at­tempt­ing to pre­sent a uni­fied con­cept of the cos­mic growth of things, mean­ings, and val­ues and of their syn­the­sis on ever-as­cend­ing lev­els of re­al­ity.